Category: Health

War in the blood

Posted on 12 July 201927 October 2021 by Tim

Every so often the BBC produces something that is worth the year’s licence fee alone. War in the blood, first broadcast last Sunday, is one such programme. It’s a truly

Say Bollocks to Cancer and Bollocks to Brexit

Posted on 22 May 20195 January 2022 by Tim

Join me, my family and friends and say Bollocks to Cancer. Also please use your vote tomorrow to say Bollocks to Brexit. The two requests are connected. The development of

A pants way of raising ovarian cancer awareness

Posted on 8 May 201931 October 2021 by Tim

Today is world ovarian cancer awareness day. This cancer is the 6th most common to affect women – currently around 33,000 in the UK have it. 7,400 more women are

Cancer: “Enough Of This, Thank You”

Posted on 26 April 201927 October 2021 by Tim

While I remain in remission from MCL, my lovely wife Jane now has her own battles to face. I’m still too numb to process her news properly. It’s a good

Transplant +198: Maintenance Rituximab on not Brexit day

Posted on 29 March 201927 October 2021 by Tim

So today, at the fourth time of asking, success! And no, I don’t mean Theresa May getting her dreadful EU withdrawal bill through parliament, which lost for a third time,

Transplant +189: The International Day of Happiness

Posted on 20 March 201927 October 2021 by Tim

I’m fairly sure that every day is an international day of something or other. I suspect that there are so many, there are diary clashes as well. Anyway, today is

Transplant +161: Bloody neutrophils

Posted on 20 February 201927 October 2021 by Tim

Bloody neutrophils. Bloody absence of neutrophils, actually. I’ve been feeling really good for the last week or so. Gnu has emerged from hibernation and I’ve racked up a hundred or

A photograph showing cartons of Co-trimoxazole and Aciclovir

Transplant +135: A bump in the road

Posted on 25 January 201927 October 2021 by Tim

Having survived my first week back at work, I made the trek over to the Royal Derby this morning for my first Rituximab maintenance session. One of the car parks

Transplant +132: Return to work

Posted on 22 January 201927 October 2021 by Tim

Yesterday was supposed to be Blue Monday, but I was excited to be granted permission for a phased return to work. So I did return, today. I’m going to be

Transplant +98: The beast is soundly asleep and snoring

Posted on 19 December 201827 October 2021 by Tim

After a rather sleepless night, there was excellent news from the hospital this morning. I have almost normal blood again and there was no evidence of lymphoma on my PET/CT

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